Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel 1994 Directed by Ken Swartz

1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.

Country USA

Production Country USA

Language English

Spoken Language English

Gnere Documentary

Production Company Chronicle Pictures

Release Date 15 November 1994

51 mins